Water rights clash as Kansas EPA hearing looms in Dodge City
Debates over proposed EPA water quality standards heat up in southwest Kansas. A public hearing is set for Best Western Silver Spur in Dodge City with an EPA information session from 4 to 6 pm and the hearing from 6:30 to 9 pm. Key figures include Kansas Agriculture Secretary Jamie Clover Adams and Sierra Club attorney Charles Benjamin, highlighting conflicts over federal versus state control of privately owned waters and lakes.
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Finney County
Kansas
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Best Western Silver Spur
Wyatt Earp Blvd
Dodge City
Jamie Clover Adams
Charles Benjamin
The
Sierra Club
Adams
Benjamin
United States
Clover Adams
Bill Graves
Natural Resource Council
America
Ally Devine
Kansas Livestock Association
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Kansas water pollution debate goals near costly fixes
With dropping water levels pollutant concerns rise as EPA and KDHE clash over surface water designations. The KDHE registry lists streams and lakes as suitable for recreation, but EPA rejects most secondary uses without use attainability analyses, risking underutilization of water bodies and higher future costs. In Finney County primary contact streams Arkansas River and Pawnee Creek are noted as examples.
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EPA
Kansas
Congress
KDHE
Finney County
Arkansas River
Pawnee Creek
Kari Mueldener
Bureau of Water
Bond backers push for second high school vote
The High School Bond Committee, formed at the USD 457 Board of Education’s request, aims to persuade voters to approve a second high school in the November 7 bond election. Board support will aid the drive, with administrators barred from promotional activity by state law.
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USD 457 Board of Education
Bruce Reichmuth
Kathleen Whitley
USD 457
Inmate Kinney Found Hanged in Haskell County Jail
Charles Ray Kinney, 45, from Satanta, was found hanged in his Haskell County Jail cell early Thursday as jailers prepared to serve breakfast. Undersheriff Butler said a bath towel was tied around his neck. FBI and coroner notified. jail death is being investigated as possible suicide.
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Charles Ray Kinney
Haskell County
Kinney
Mississippi
Garden City
Satanta
David Butler
Kenny
Butler
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Haskell
Carl Osbon
Janet Kodo
Osbon
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